Podcasts have become a legitimate cultural phenomenon over the last few years. Readily accessible home technology and a flowering of niche audiences have given rise to a near limitless number of topics—it’s now just as easy to hear world leaders as it is to hear poodle groomers in Finland.

Since the announcement of Omnisphere 2 at this years’ NAMM 2015, we have had a lot of enquiries into what users are to expect with Omnisphere 2. This article includes a list of answers to these questions which keep popping up.

This library sounds absolutely massive in every way. Modern Compression techniques mixed with excellent sample content and recording quality combine to make a sound that is big enough for the club, the rave, the stadium and the arena right out of the box.

An expansive 2.75 GB collection of guitar-centered kits from four different genres including Funk, Retro, RnB, and Rock offers you 20 construction kits of well-recorded and versatile guitar loops, bass loops, and drum loops that can fit into any Funk, Rock, RnB or Retro production you could think of. Everything from smooth and sexy to gritty and raw is covered in its unique urban style here

World String Loops is a simply stunning collection of gorgeous ethnic string loops and samples played by 3 world class session musicians. The sample pack contains beautifully melodic sounds from a Baglama, Cümbüs, Charango, Dobro, African Kora and Harp, perfect for building tracks around and injecting extraordinary musicality into your productions.

This sample library is truly unique, packed full of inspirational left field loops created with various found sound recordings, twisted VCS3 analogue synths, warped guitar and bass, re-amped samples and beaten up drum breaks.

Hi Alessandro, could you tell us a little about your own musical background?

I started taking piano lessons at the age of ten. Then I soon had the desire to create my own music and sounds and became interested in synthesizers, MIDI and audio technology in general. I was also lucky enough to have an uncle that introduced me to the first personal computer, when I was seven. Continue reading →

As a veteran dialogue editor with dozens of feature films under his belt, Ray Beentjes is used to taking on challenging projects. But editing dialogue for the epic Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies redefined the definition of “challenging.”

Following a busy summer of international festivals and a South West Music Award under their belts, progressive tech metal quartet Cambion have taken to the studio. We caught up with them to talk about their love for Toontrack exclusively for Metal Month

In the lead up to the Mercury Music prize we spoke to Leafcutter John AKA John Burton about his second nomination with his band Polar Bear for their 2014 offering ‘In Each and Every One’, his extensive solo projects and love of iZotope Iris

After the success of last years Game Music Connect conference we were proud to be a partner for this years event held on the 24th September.

Would-be composers, sound designers and audio aficionados from all over the globe packed in to the Southbank Centre’s Purcell room for a day of open forums, demonstrations and in depth interviews with some of the most accomplished and respected composers in the industry. Continue reading →